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[den]

New Bugs

Four rescues today, and they were all sparrows and starlings. I had to euthanase them all.

And when I wasn't killing birds, I was doing Business Statistics assignment.

Comments

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Aww, too bad. On the other hand, I confess, my sympathy for starlings has been largely beat out of me by exposure to the things over the years...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Starlings are an introduced pest here. They out-compete native species for nesting sites and actively destroy nests. They're rats with wings.

[canisrufus-uk.livejournal.com]

They aren't very popular birds where they are native either.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I read in places that sparrows and starlings are suffering from greatyly reduced populations in the UK.

You can have ours.

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

Sparrows are definitely down in numbers, although around here the drop isn't anything like as bad as it is in some places.

Starlings on the other hand have gone from flocks you count by the thousand back in the 1960's, to the odd dozen today.

And no, we don't particularly want the export model back :) We've got enough problems with pigeons.